National Female Youth MP Monica Amoding

Amoding said that government has only been criticising the youth for involving themselves into riots among others saying that this is because they have nothing to do and therefore called for the government’s special attention towards the youth.

She also appealed to government to reposition skills development and make it a critical area of focus within the national development plan as well as make the youth capital venture fund more workable and accessible to all the youth in the country.

The international youth day is celebrated every 12^th of August annually and this year’s celebrations will take place in Arua under the theme “accelerating youth empowerment through skills development”.

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National Female Youth MP Monica Amoding

She made the pledges after being elected as the chairperson of the parliamentary forum for youth where she replaced the former female youth MP Mariam Nalubega.

She says that she is going to focus on handling issues related to unemployment, and focusing on improving education curriculum. She also said that she is going to focus on strengthening the different skills for the youth.

Amoding says that the youth need to be prepared in terms of social well being and therefore that is what she is going to focus on as the chairperson of the youth forum.

The outgoing chairperson of the forum Mariam Nalubega tasked the incoming executive to work together with the outgoing executive members for continuity. She said that the youth have a lot of challenges but with unity they can be overcome.  She however said that a lot has be done in terms of representation and budgeting.

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The report indicated that sexual exploitation of children is infiltrating schools and on a very high rate in urban centers.

Their report shows that sexual exploitation cases have increased from 12000 to 18000 annually with more girls affected than boys.

Nalwanga Rebecca Lukwago

The chairperson Uganda Youth parliamentary forum Nalwanga Rebecca Lukwago speaking to journalists shortly after the report appealed to Ugandans to try and restore the family values so as to reduce the problem of commercial sexual exploitation of children in Uganda.

Nalwanga says that parents have neglected their roles in the family and this need to be corrected.

She said that children come to the streets not because they are willing but because of other factors which should be solved by the government and the public at large.

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Addressing a youth’s council at the RDC board room at Boma recently Basiima revealed that the youths constitute 59% of the country’s population but have not been involved in government’s prosperity for all programs.

He observed that the government has for the past years sidelined the youth by not engaging them in developmental projects to help them improve their income.

He unveiled that the youths projects that were lobbied from the president’s office that include a hatchery, hydro form machine, a tractor a youth centre among others have been have been granted.

He however clarified that the projects that target benefiting the youth are to be controlled by Kabarole youth Association.

Bwire Collins the former district youths chairperson advised the youth leaders not to focus on sports but to mobilize and empower the youths to join income generating projects.

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Rwabuhinga says that during the campaign period, the youths challenged the government for not engaging them in the NAADS program.

He explains that despite having less or no land, the youth can carry out farming projects less or no land citing pig rearing and apiary.

Rwabuhinga maintains that this would make the youths busy and help them improve on their income.

The district chairperson appealed to the Kabarole district NAADS coordinator Grace Kazigati to ensure that most work plans are output oriented so as to benefit many people.

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At least 20% of fresh graduates are reported to be employed in the formal sectors while 80% are said to be unemployed / Jobless or have chosen to become job creator.

On Wednesday June 8^th, the ministry of finance and economic planning will be reading the countries national budget 2011-2012.

Emmanuel Kitamirike

The executive director youth Emmanuel Kitamirike says the recent protest have had a section of youth get involved due to lack of employment.

Kitamirike notes that present employment and financial support to young entrepreneur will greatly contribute to curbing down active participation in protest and boost economic growth.

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Samuel Kavuma

According to the national chairman of the Commonwealth Youth Council, Kavuma Samuel, MPs should hold on to their plan since the country is under economic crisis.

MPs recently met under closed doors and reportedly agreed to increased their salaries from the current average of 15 million shillings to 19 million shillings, and purchase cars for themselves, each at 190 million shillings per MP

Kavuma notes that this huge money should be used to drive developmental plans in the country.

The Youths say that in case MPs fail to listen to their demands, they are planning to petition the speaker over the same matter.

Kavuma also adds that government should come up with well spelt plans for youths like setting up a youth fund, create more jobs for youths among others steps to drive youths out of unemployment

By Isaac Senabulya

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